BlockHead

As mentioned, I've been working with a serie of quilts made from BowTie blocks. The last one is a mandala like design stressing the beautiful fabrics from Moda: Stilettos. They're so pretty that I hardly had the heart to cut them. 

The technique is still English Paper Piecing. When sewing the block parts together with whipstitches, the thread is visible at the right side, but I've found a method to hide the stitches completely from the right side of the quilt top. (The blue color is the color of the design wall, where the quilt is hanging, not part of the quilt.)

It needs precision to make the fabric lay flat and doesn't pucker. 

But a little squaring up of the top always helps.

I wanted a very narrow black line before the Prairie Point Binding. To get the line very, very narrow, II put a macramé thread into a bias binding, fastened the Prairie Points to the binding and stitched it to the patchwork top. It didn't make it less complicated that I wanted the Prairie Points padded like the top itself!

Finally I hand quilted bubbles around the dark BowTie blocks to add champagne to the dress up party.

(Quilting seen at this backside detail photo.)